April 24, 2023

2023 – Darius M. Adams, Joseph Buongiorno and Richard Haynes, USA

For their development of the original groundbreaking forest economic models TAMM, PAPYRUS and GFPM.

November 21, 2022

2022 – Ilkka Kilpeläinen, Finland, and Herbert Sixta, Austria

For the development and use of novel ionic liquids to process wood biomass into high-performance textile fibres.

August 25, 2020

2020 – Joseph J Landsberg, Australia, Richard H Waring, USA, and Nicholas C Coops, Canada

For their groundbreaking work in developing forest growth models based on tree ecophysiology, and further development of these models to widespread geospatial forest analysis using remote sensing..

March 22, 2019

2019 – Gerhard Schickhofer, Austria

for his role in providing insightful scientific and engineering research data required to standardize wood-based construction products with..

April 17, 2018

2018 – Torgny Näsholm, Sweden

for his groundbreaking research of the role of organic nitrogen in the nutrition of trees. The ability of boreal forests to take up..

March 20, 2017

2017 – Ronald R. Sederoff, USA

for his breakthroughs in developing methods for gene discovery in conifer species and further exploiting molecular methods in..

April 22, 2016

2016 – Alexander Katsevich, USA, and Federico Giudiceandrea, Italy

For their groundbreaking research and development work that has resulted in the realization of a high-speed X-ray-based computed tomography (CT) instrument and method for non-destructively..

March 16, 2015

2015 – Akira Isogai, Tsuguyuki Saito, Japan, and Yoshiharu Nishiyama, France

for their ground-breaking research on TEMPO-mediated oxidation of cellulose fibre and further exploitation of this oxidation as a..

September 24, 2014

2014 – Magnus Berggren, Sweden

For his broad and path-breaking contributions to the basic science as well as to several applications of electronics applied on paper. His alternative approach to develop ion-based electrochemical transistors..

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